The film closes with the real Saroo bring his Tasmanian mother to India to see his Indian mother. The sadness was replaced with more tears of joy when his mother told him a younger sister was still alive. The proof was a bump on the head from a long-forgotten accident when he was run over by a bike while carrying a watermelon and the melon smashed against his head.Īmid tears of happiness, Saroo asks about his older brother Guddu. It was Saroo’s mother, who instantly recognised her son. With his Hindi long forgotten, he had difficulty making people understand his quest. Finally he told an English-speaking local his story and the man took him to meet an old woman. To his disappointment the old house was long abandoned and turned into an animal compound. From memory he followed the route to where he believed his house was and knew he had found his home. This was his home town he garbled as “Ganatelay”. Working out in a 1500km radius from Calcutta he finally found landmarks in Google earth that matched his childhood memories: a waterfall where he played as a boy, the quarry where his mother worked, a train station with a water tower and a town called Ganesh Talai. It was a massive undertaking but the search obsessed Saroo. Someone suggests he work out how fast Indian trains travelled in the 1980s and to use Google Earth to find his home. He tells them his story of travelling two days on a train to Calcutta and all he can remember is a train station with a water tank. They were invited to a meal at the house of an Indian couple where the sight of traditional Indian food stirred long hidden memories in Saroo. Saroo moved from Tasmania to Melbourne to learn hotel management and became involved with an American student (Rooney Mara). The timeframe moved forward from the late 1980s to 2008 when Saroo Brierley was an Australianised young man, played by Dev Patel. They fill his life with love so he is happy though is affected by a second Indian adoption into the family a year later, a boy who was less happy and practised self harm. Eventually he agreed to be adopted by an Australian couple and he flew to Tasmania, where the Brierley couple, played by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham, take him home. Saroo was placed in an orphanage but ads in the Calcutta paper failed to locate his family. The illiterate Saroo told police he was from “Ganatelay” but no one knows a place of that name.
Saroo escaped once more and befriended a man, who took him to the police station. Saroo became suspicious of her intentions when she invited a man over who checks him out and he distrusted their promises to help him find his family. Sleeping rough, he narrowly avoids being kidnapped at night into child slavery and according to the film he meets a woman who befriends him and takes him home (in real life it was a male railway worker.) Saroo escapes into the station throng but is lost in a strange city where no one speaks his native Hindi. After two days the train ended up in faraway Calcutta – 1500km from Khandwa. Saroo could not escape from an empty locked cabin and his calls for help at stations were unheeded. When he woke up his brother was gone and the train is moving. The pair got separated and Saroo fell asleep on a train. One night Guddu and Saroo travelled to a nearby city on a train where Guddu earned money working as a sweeper. Saroo’s older brother Guddu supplemented their income by stealing coal from trains to sell for food and would take five-year-old Saroo with him on adventures. His father had left home and the desperately poor family relied on the money his mother made from carrying rocks from a quarry. Saroo Brierley was born in 1981 in a small village near the Central Indian city of Khandwa. Lion tells an incredible true story and it has been turned into one of the best Australian films in years. My eyes are capable of betraying me again at the memory the following morning.
#LION IN HINDI SHEROO FULL#
I was annoyed at myself, knowing full well my emotions were being played on by the filmmakers but like my own mother all those years ago, I could not help myself. Mum has been dead ten years now but I remembered her and her tears as I watched the first meeting of a man and his mother in 25 years at the end of Lion. “Stop it, you” she would say to me while drying her tears, her anger at me betrayed by a smile. I’ve always hating crying at the movies ever since I was kid and used to laugh at my mum when she cried at the drop of a hat in any emotional scene of a movie, no matter how silly the premise. I hate to admit it but I shed tears while watching the new film Australian film Lion.
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